Organ Donation In Nancy Farmer's The House Of The Scorpion

Many people find organ donation a challenging topic to consider, a bit like talking about death. Possibly this is because at the time one or more people are receiving a donor’s kidney or heart, another family is undergoing a tragic loss. Organ donation is the act of donating an organ by a person so that it can be transplanted by surgical procedure in the body of the recipient. Organ donation can benefit many people from death or any other critical conditions. A person already dying can save someone's life by donating his or her organs. Consider the fact that the person in need of an organ might have a family to provide for. Organ donation is portrayed in a positive way in The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer and in My Sister's Keeper …show more content…
Simply someone is giving you a second chance in life. Why not reserve an organ that would of gone to waste if a person in need did not use it. For some, an organ transplant means no longer having to be dependent on costly routine treatments to survive. It allows many recipients to return to a normal lifestyle. For example others, an eye or tissue transplant means the ability to see again or the recovery of mobility and freedom from pain. The donor is aware that they will give up their organs when death has come to them. For example in The House of the Scorpion Tam Lin explains to matt that El Patron has used 7 of this clones for an organ transplant, and the he will be the next if El Patron gets ill. This explains that organ transplant can help to prevent death, like it did to El Patron 7 …show more content…
Making the decision to donate is a life-changing act for families. You should also be aware that you can help out a family member to. You might be wondering how does that work. Well a person that is alive does not need two kidneys to survive. Kidneys are not the only thing you can donate, as well as lung partial liver, pancreas and intestine. There is a good and bad side to this type of donation for the donor and the donee. For example that you will have to take care of yourself and not be able to do things that other people can. One example is that you will have to take care of yourself .Like being in any physical sport, and there is a possibility of having a shorter life.For the Donee there can be many complications during surgery.There is also a high possibility of getting an infection. My the film My Sister’s Keeper Anna was designed for only one purpose which was to save her sister's life. When Anna was small they did all types of surgeries and treatments for she can be a perfect match with Kates kidney and will eventually become a donor.All Kate needed was a new kidney and she would fight the cancer. This shows that by donating a kidney can also help a family member fight through whatever disease they